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TechCrunch Startup News

Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who"s raising, who"s exiting, who"s changing the world.

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5:05

Credder offers Rotten Tomatoes-style ratings for the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/20

In an age of online misinformation and clickbait, how do you know whether a publication is trustworthy? Startup Credder is trying to solve this problem with reviews from both journalists and regular readers. These reviews are then aggregated into an overall credibility score (or rather, scores, sincethe journalist and reader ratings are calculated separately). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:11

Fastly pops in public offering showing that there’s...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/20

Shares of Fastly, the service that’s used by websites to ensure that they can load faster, have popped in its first hours of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which priced its public offering at around $16 — the top of the estimated range for its public offering — have risen more than 50% since their debut on public markets to trade at $25.01. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:21

Mobile ticketing company TodayTix raises $73M in new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/17

TodayTix, a mobile ticketing company that makes it easy and relatively affordable to go to Broadway shows and other live performances, is announcing a new $73 million round of funding led by private equity firm Great Hill Partners. The company was founded in 2013, and it served initially as the mobile equivalent of New York’s TKTS booths for discounted, last-minute theater tickets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:28

Fiverr files to go public, reports revenue of $75.5M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/17

Freelance marketplace Fiverr has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which is headquartered in Tel Aviv, is losing money — its net losses grew from $19.3 million in 2017 to $36.1 million in 2018. At the same time, revenue grew by nearly 45 percent, from $52.1 million to $75.5 million. “Our mission is to change how the world works together,” Fiverr says in the filing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:32

Xnor’s AI2GO serves up custom edge AI models with a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/16

AI would be useful for tons of everyday tasks for small businesses and other operations — if people just knew how to build and deploy their own machine learning agent. Unfortunately, few do. Edge-based AI startup Xnor.ai aims to let non-experts put state of the art AI to work as easily as they might update their website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:27

Solo.io wants to bring order to service meshes with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/16

As containers and microservices have proliferated, a new kind of tool called the service mesh has developed to help manage and understand interactions between services. While Kubernetes has emerged as the clear container orchestration tool of choice, there is much less certainty in the service mesh market. Solo.io announced a new open source tool called Service Mesh Hub today, designed to help companies manage multiple service meshes in a single interface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:12

India’s ride-hailing firm Ola is now in the credit...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/15

A day after India’s largest wallet app Paytm entered the credit cards business, local ride-hailing giant is following suit. Ola has inked a deal with state-run SBI bank and Visa to issue as many as 10 million credit cards in next three and a half years, it said today. The move will help Visa and SBI bank acquire more customers in India, where most transactions are still bandied out over cash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:56

Voi unveils ‘longer-lasting’ e-scooters designed to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/15

Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service on the streets of a growing number of European cities, has unveiled a range of new scooters and a first e-bike more suited to rentals. The company is also revealing plans to expand to another 150 cities and towns, having ratcheted up 2 million rides in eight months since launching. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:19

Mailchimp expands from email to full marketing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/14

Mailchimp, a bootstrapped startup out of Atlanta, Ga., is known best as a popular tool for organizations to manage their customer-facing email activities — a profitable business that its CEO told TechCrunch has now grown to around 11 million active customers with a total audience of 4 billion (yes, 4 billion), and is on track for $700 million in revenue in 2019. (Note: Slack’s previous quarter was around $133 million, and it’s operating at a loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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14:42

As a founder, I mistook my work for self-worth

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/14

Dale Stephens Contributor Share on Twitter Dale Stephens was one of the first Thiel Fellows and ran an education company for six years. These days he works an executive coach, helping entrepreneurs and executives grow as fast as their companies. These days, most days are good days. My clients are founder and executives, I set my own schedule, and I live in a city I love. As an executive coach and advisor, I work with founders and CEOs of companies who have raised more than $100M. Learn

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13:44

India’s most popular services are becoming super apps

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/13

Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers, will soon allow users in India, its largest market, to borrow up to a few hundred dollars in the nation. The crediting option will be the fourth feature the nine-year-old app adds to its service in the last two years. So far it has added to the service the ability to text, record phone calls and mobile payment features, some of which are only available to users in India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:56

Saas Management startup Intello scores $2.5 million...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/13

Intello, the New York City-based Saas management platform, announced a $2.5 million extended seed round today, along with some product enhancements. The round was led by Resolute Ventures . Harrison Metal and Magnetico Ventures also participated along with various individual angel investors including Zane Lackey from Signal Sciences, Chris Smoak from Atrium and Zach Sherman from Timber. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $4 million, according the company. Learn more about your ad choices

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3:24

Razor startup Harry’s will be acquired by Edgewell...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/10

Razor startup Harry’s will be acquired by Edgewell Personal Care for $1.37B Edgewell Personal Care, which owns brands like Schick (razors), Banana Boat (sunscreen) and Wet Ones (moist wipes), is adding Harry’s to that list in a $1.37 billion acquisition. Founded in 2013, Harry’s is part of the current wave of brands using the internet to sell products directly to consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:10

Clean.io raises $2.5M to fight malicious advertising

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/10

Existing approaches to blocking malicious advertising aren’t working — at least according to digital ad veteran Seth Demsey. That should resonate with anyone who’s ever encountered an ad that immediately redirected them to a website filled with annoying gift card offers. And it’s the issue that the startup Demsey co-founded,clean.io, is working to address. Today, the company is unveiling the new clean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:02

Cybersecurity insurance startup Coalition raises $40M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/09

Coalition, a cybersecurity insurance company, has raised $40 million in its latest round of funding. Fintech investment giant Ribbit Capital led the investment with participation from Greenoaks Capital and Hillhouse Capital. Coalition’s insurance covers expenses incurred from liabilities related to third-parties, such as fines and penalties — as well as fraud, breach response, extortion and ransomware recovery, and device replacement, and more. The company also aims to give U.S. Learn more about

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4:52

Rent the Runway just opened its largest...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/09

Who would have thought Rent the Runway would emerge as a competitor to The Wing and all traditional brick-and-mortar retail? Its newest store, complete with co-working space, shows it’s more than just a designer gown rental service. Shortly after landing a $125 million investment at a $1 billion valuation, Rent the Runway (RTR) has replanted roots in San Francisco, opening an 8,300 square foot West Coast flagship in the city’s Union Square neighborhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:53

Serverless monitoring startup Espagon expands to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/08

When Espagon launched last Fall, the Israeli startup had an idea to monitor serverless, architectures, specifically AWS Lambda. But the company didn’t want to confine itself to monitoring a narrow class of applications, and today it announced it is now able to monitor a broader set of microservice development approaches. CEO and co-founder Nitzan Shapira says when it launched, the startup wanted to take aim at serverless and Lambda seemed to be the prime tool for doing that. Learn more about your ad

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3:34

Shape Security’s latest product protects smaller...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/08

Shape Security has been helping big companies stay safe from fraudulent activities like password reuse and bot traffic on their publicly facing websites and apps. The company now wants to help smaller companies have that same type of protection, and today it announced a new cloud service called Connect aimed at that market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:17

Sendbird snags additional $50M for messaging API...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/06

Sendbird, a startup that enables developers to add messaging to their apps with a couple of lines of code, announced a secondary Series B investment of $50 million today. This additional funding comes on top of the $52 million, the company raised in February. The new money was led by Tiger Global Management with significant participation from the Iconiq, the firm that led the initial Series B round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:50

SeatGeek names former Tumblr and NYT exec Brian...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/06

Ticketing startup SeatGeek has a new CTO. Brian Murphy previously held the same position at Tumblr (which, like TechCrunch, is owned by Verizon Media) and has also served as vice president of engineering at The New York Times and senior director of technology at Condé Nast. “Brian is an incredible leader and team-builder who has overseen engineering teams for some remarkable companies,” said SeatGeek co-founder and CEO Jack Groetzinger in a statement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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